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Joey Scott @joeyneverjoe.bsky.social · 8h

LAPD shot at @shoton35mm.bsky.social last night and called him “fake press.”

Investigating LAPD-press incidents in Los Angeles on Saturday. No doubt LAPD violated court injunction. Just a question of how bad.

So far I think only minor injuries to press. Still confirming. Not a passing grade regardless.

Preliminary leads in blue at top. Please share evidence if you have!

California Press Rights Tracking Doc (Consolidated)

docs.google.com

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 3h

the only thing that matters is showing the left who’s boss

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 3h

cool, I’m sorry about your inability to tell when someone is clearly, obviously lying to you. Enjoy being a mark!

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 18h

Perhaps the people who are lying are the ones who say one thing… and then do the exact opposite? Crazy concept to introduce in the 11th hour I know

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 18h

Yeah and according to Donald Trump he really cares about poor people. He’s going to start showing it any day now.

After all the Dems’ve had a dearly held belief they’ve made negative progress (e.g. supplying weapons to Israel with no strings) on over the last 30 years so it’s natural to stumble

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 18h

if you “support” a compromise but never actually do anything to accomplish it and show blatant favoritism to one side, how much is that “support” worth?

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 18h

remember when we forgave and forgot about the bankers and financiers who crashed our economy back in ‘08 and it definitely didn’t have lasting negative consequences for everyone who wasn’t wealthy? let’s try it again, but this time with the schutzstaffel!

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 18h

none of this magnanimity will be offered to the people who were persecuted by the state, however.

and people wonder how we got here when the “rule” seems to be: if you’re a terrible person but pretend to be remorseful we’ll give you the world, if you’re a student with a conscience you get fucked

William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 22h

Newsom or Pritzker should loudly signal that people who have clean records who quit because this isn’t what they signed up to do will get their careers back when the winds change.

CBS News @cbsnews.com · 1d

A former ICE director says agents have been put "in a terrible position" and are being tasked with operations "in a city where they don't belong."

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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 1d

When there’s so clearly more people who don’t want fascism than do want fascism it becomes pretty fucking unignorable that the Democratic Party has a widespread candidate, platform and messaging problem. Every election is theirs to lose, and they do.

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 22h

that’s good, as a communist I’m relieved that the wine moms didn’t listen to the No Kings organizers and came with slogans that vocalized a desire for a more radical politics (that not coincidentally is closer to my own)

this is objectively a good thing for the country

Cameron @cameroncorduroy.bsky.social · 1d

every smug internet communist tweet about showing up to a No Kings protest with an abolish ICE shirt to scare the libs is getting completely mogged by the real-life winemoms showing up with slogans like "ICE will melt in hell"

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 22h

was waiting for the mariners announcer cam from last night

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ripcinema @ripcinema.bsky.social · 2d

we're entering what historians call The Weekend Zone

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Bugs, Beleaguered Babysitter of the Booger Brothers @bugsmaytrix.bsky.social · 1d

absolutely wild turn of events. frogs have been percolating in queer spaces for a bit now (lots of MILF = Man I Love Frogs type of stuff) but seeing the mainstream narrative shift to frogs being a normie symbol of democracy/resistance is so fuckin funny.

frens found dead in the ditch.

Tim Onion @bencollins.bsky.social · 1d

MSNBC Grandmas in Skechers seamlessly reclaiming the frog from 4chan Nazis in about six weeks has gotta be the political upset of the century.

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 1d

democrats have been trying to reach “the middle” for decades and have only succeeded in pissing off their base to the point they can’t reliably turn them out anymore. there is no “middle ground” between center-right, pro-business liberalism and Nazis that’s worth staking out at this point

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 1d

this is exactly the problem with liberals and never-Trump conservatives appealing to institutions and norms: the ones behind those things very much love what’s happening right now. they’ve got you trying to play chess while they’re tearing off the wallpaper and gnawing on the dry wall

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 1d

one thing I’ve been tickled to learn these past several years is that apparently most of the US and world population is actually Secret Russians

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Harlem Toots @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 1d

“The government claims that money that Kordia sent to her family in Gaza—a few thousand U.S. dollars in total—is evidence of material support for Hamas.”

www.newyorker.com/news/the-led...

The Last Columbia Protester in ICE Detention

Leqaa Kordia, a Palestinian woman who has lived in the U.S. since 2016, has been detained in Texas for the past eight months.

www.newyorker.com

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 1d

Haven’t Canadians erected a whole series of monuments to Nazis?

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 1d

I, for one, wake up every day and think to myself: “but what about the anime Nazis?”

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 1d

sorry that you have to live in the complete swampass shithole that is Houston in an even worse state but it’s not that serious! Enjoy the game!

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Brian Floyd @brianmfloyd.bsky.social · 1d

THE SEATTLE MARINERS BASEBALL TEAM

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 1d

Love the Mariners because they still make me feel something, even if that something is existential despair

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 2d

“I want to be lauded for my genius without ever putting in effort” summarizes the entirety of Silicon Valley/VC culture. These are people who have never cultivated actual skills beyond being able to bullshit other wealthy idiots out of their money

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

Didn't go to film school? Don't worry. Legendary investor and movie buff Marc Andreessen doesn't think that will be an issue for future creatives.

During an episode of "Monitoring the Situation," the podcast for the venture capitalist firm that Andreessen cofounded, A16z, he said advancements in AI technology — like OpenAI's Sora 2 — have made it possible for a new type of filmmaker to emerge.

"The filmmaker with no visual skill, or access to a set, or to a camera, or to actors, but with an idea," Andreessen said on Friday. "It's going to start with shorts and animated things and so forth, but it's going to work its way up to full movies."

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2d

It’s tiresome at this point, but again, their entire pitch is “wouldn’t it be great if there were no such things as talent, craft, and skill,” and what that means is a bland, slop-filled world. www.businessinsider.com/marc-andrees...

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Aves Maria @avesmaria.bsky.social · 2d

lol their ideal political action is literally just the “rally to restore sanity” from the early ‘10s, which accomplished a resounding nothing

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